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Thomas Partey
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Better wait for Fabrizio or Orny or reliable spanish source to confirm this now Matteo saying we told A.Madrid we won't pay his release clause.
Country: Wales
Atletico refused to negotiate with Bayern, Barcelona, Chelsea and Man Utd when they sold them players.
99.999% sure it’s going to be release clause or nothing. It’s why they put in fair clauses, to encourage teams to make offers rather than negotiate.
Preacher
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Pay up or shut up. There is no other option. A.Madrid won't entertain our swap offers.
I think if we don’t offer the money in some shape or form they won’t sell him. They hold all the cards. He is under contract for three more years and is probably worth €60-70m in the current market. There’s no need for them to accept anything lower than that unless forced to.
To be honest with the way our season has gone I’d rather spend the money on a couple of creative midfielders.
To be honest with the way our season has gone I’d rather spend the money on a couple of creative midfielders.
Country: England
We'll have to pay over the release clause tbh.
UpTheGunnerz
Vrei sa pleci dar una una iei
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Sanchez11
Nobody Is Coming!
Country: England
Transfers are never easy with Arsenal, i dont think this will happen.
i mean 50M euros shouldn't be problem for team like us even if we not as powerful financially as City and Chelsea or even UTD.
Logically you’d say sell Guendouzi and add that money if they don’t want him in a swap. That means there’s probably no market for Guendouzi.
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SI has him valued at 42m Euros here 12th top youth in world football:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si...luable-players-under-21-mbappe-pulisic-sancho
Transfermkt had him valued at 50m Euros and the top young CM in the world:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ju...t-of-most-valuable-u21-midfielders/236811/amp
CIES football observatory had him in an algorithm according to advanced stats and had him rated at 70m Euros, this was one year ago, only rated behind Sancho:
https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/261/en/
We've done a very poor job of developing him, and of course our 3 managers in one season didn't help him and he had a very poor year ngl. There's a top player in there and imo we are gonna regret flogging him off.
This is all grain of salt stuff tho because it's not a science. Remember when Leon Bailey was the next hottest thing? And he's had a couple seasons now where he's not lived up to expectations. For me tho we could be doing so much more to make Guendo a top asset...
Country: England
Why’s Di Marzio employing a load of kids?
Pretty sure Barca paid over Griezmann’s release clause so they could pay in instalments.
Barca took a loan from a bank to get Griezmann deal done if i'm not wrong that why their club is heading to a disaster
Never trusting a Welsh-Spanish ITK again.
Country: Wales
No we refused to let them do it because they dicked around when it came to paying the fee.
They ended up paying 108M because we walked away from the table.
So the question:
Depending on what happens in the Cup Final - do we pay up? Or search for an alternative?
Depending on what happens in the Cup Final - do we pay up? Or search for an alternative?
Europe make things easier but i think we'll need to sell both Torreira and Guendouzi first or at least one of them to give us a chance to sign Partey and free a space in midfield.
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Probably need to sell first to buy.
If they really want the release clause activated then I’m not sure we can do it whatever happens. That means paying €50m all up front. I doubt we can do that without Kroenke putting his hand in his pocket.
Look elsewhere, there must be numerous cheaper options out there.
Also I just don't get why we'd spend so much money on this type of player in our current situation. First you buy the flair players to get momentum going, then you buy the cogs to make the team win.
City didn't buy Fernandinho till later on, first they bought players like Robinho, Tevez, Adebayor, David Silva etc.
If it was 2015 and we were already a pretty good team that just needed a key player to turn us into a winning team over the course of a season, I'd go for Partey all day long. But as it is I don't see how he takes you from 8th to 4th or even 5th, so it seems like a bad use of limited resources.
If we go big, it should be for a creative midfielder, a flair player.
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